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Rory Mellon

I got 2,000 readers to pick the best movie twist of all time and this '90s classic was the clear winner

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(L-R) Haley Joel Osment as Cole Sear and Bruce Willis as Malcolm Crowe in "The Sixth Sense".

I’ve had movie twists on the mind lately. After writing back-to-back articles covering the best twist-fueled movies currently streaming on Netflix and Prime Video, I was very curious to ask Tom’s Guide readers to pick what they think is the best movie twist of all time.

To find my answer, I created a dedicated reader poll and watched to see which classic twist would come out on top. This necessitated first picking eight of the biggest twists for the poll, so I scoured online rankings to find the movies that featured most often, and loads of the usual suspects kept popping up, including “The Sixth Sense,” “Planet of the Apes” and “Oldboy.”

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